Here in the Search nav, you can.... SEARCH. Start typing a game or gamer, it will autosuggest. Press one to go, or hit Enter to get the full search results.
Below the searchbox, you'll see recent games, gamers, clubs, events, and quests you've visited.
Below that is the full site map with all of the different pages on this platform. Most of these are accessible in the other navs too. But here they're all in one place, if you're into that sort of thing.
Jump in a virtual or IRL event, tournament, or league. Participate in a Quest (a gaming challenge that you can do any time). Channel 3 has something for all skill levels, including gaming-focused daily minigames.
Go to Events below to search for real-time tournaments or other events. Quests will show you offline challenges you can complete at any time.
You may have friends here already, or you may meet your next lifelong squadmate here. Either way, Channel 3 is most fun when you find your people and can have friendly competitions and participate in challenges together.
Below you can navigate all the gamers, clubs, and causes on Channel 3.
If you'd like to create and run a Club, submit an New Club Request.
Whether it's 1 to 2, or 99 to 100, leveling up is the best feeling in the world. On Channel 3, when you participate in quests, when your post gets 1Up'd, when you crush a daily minigame, you get XP. Get 1k XP, and you level up and unlock rewards. Rewards can be custom reaction GIFs, cool backgrounds, or prize wheel spins for IRL gaming gear or in game currency.
Turbo is an optional subscription for superusers. You don't need Turbo to enjoy Channel 3. Turbo users get early access to new features, and are able to unlock more levels in a season.
On Channel 3, seasons last 3 months. They will always run January 1 - April 1, April 1 - July 1, July 1 - October 1, and October 1 - January 1.
Open channel3.gg in Chrome. Click the Install icon in the right side of the address bar:
Click Install when you get this prompt.
After installation, you can pin to the Windows taskbar alongside your other favorite apps.
Open channel3.gg in Safari. It has to be Safari.
Tap the Share button in the middle of the footer.
Tap Add to Home Screen.
Tap Add on the prompt.
BOOM. You're done. iPhones try to act like it's "just a website bookmark" because they want everyone to go through the App Store but really it functions just like an app... Full screen, moveable icon on your home screen. All of it.
Enjoy.
Install the Channel 3 app from the Google Play Store.
There are so many caveats and gotchas here for what counts as an actual Replay to me...
1. Multiplayer Versus doesn't count but Multiplayer Coop does. (No to Fortnite and Mortal Kombat, yes to Contra. No to Goldeneye Versus Mode, yes to Story Mode)
2. It has to be a game that can be beaten and not just a High Score machine. (Yes to Mario 2 and 3, no to Pac Man and Tetris)
3. Replays mean starting over from nothing. (No to constantly going back to existing Star Dew Valley or Animal Crossing. No to redoing levels in Roguelikes with improved gear.)
4. Going through old levels to 100% the game, even it you play it for hours a week for years, isn't a replay, it's all one play through. See #3...
5. It has to have some kind of story or a progression element. (Yes to Sports Career Modes, no to Coffee Golf)
There are probably others and probably caveats to my caveats, but that's what the masses are for. Point out my hypocrisies so I can judge you silently from my ivory tower.
Replayable Games
List your most repayable games. As suggested by @dennis
Added Metroid Dread…I've owned it for a while and never got to it. I have a few more weeks on Vampire Survivors then I’m moving on.
Next Up
We all know that the backlog is a barren wasteland from which games never return. This is your on-deck checklist for games that you actually will be playing next. This list isn't a graveyard, it's a reservation.
You have no opinion of games on this list, because you know literally nothing about them. Adding games to this list may prevent them from showing up in certain places on Channel 3.
You know what? I'm changing my Mt Rushmore thanks to today's quest.
Original: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom and Medieval Total War.
I dropped TotK because while I think it's a better game, I don't think it could be what it is without BotW. The inspiration of awe and first steps in an open world Hyrule can't be repeated.
Medeival Total War is my most replayed game ever, I continue to play it again and again to this day.
Age of Mythology overcomes it's predecessors in a way that TotK could not. Age was the first major LAN Party game for my group of friends and it started a long time love of social gaming.
Melee was the first game I got with my Game Cube and the first game I ever finished 100%. It solidified my love of Nintendo in general and is the primary reason I continued to buy Nintendo consoles and I'm proudly @switchgang today.
Mt. Rushmore
These are your top 4 games of all time. No more, no less.
Separate from games that Cr3w recommended, these are games that you only tried for the first time and/or continued to play thereafter because of C3 activities. Not "I tried it before and tried again now," but truly tried for the first time.
Metroidvania is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a portmanteau of the names of the video game series Metroid and Castlevania.
I didn't realize some of these were made by Rare. Especially R.C. Pro-Am for the NES. I had forgotten that one existed until this list came was available to create. What a great game for it's time and God was it difficult. No 2-Player options, so it was strictly taking turns with the younger brother, but it was so hard that the rotation time was pretty quick.
Top 10 Games Developed by Rare
Rank your Top 10 games produced by the British software company Rare.
Was an honor and a privilege to be a guest. These are my two all time favorite games, the favorite at the time of the podcast, the games tied to my relationship with my wife and my daughter, there's a boardgame in there somewhere and finally the game I'm most looking forward to. Thanks guys!
What are your 3? (FOR PODCAST GUESTS ONLY)
Would love each person who appears on the podcast to complete this list AFTER their episode airs, listing the 3 games mentioned (plus honorable mentions) in order. Will be fun to see the most listed games! (AGAIN: Do NOT fill out this list unless you've been on the What are your 3? podcast)
I haven’t played a lot of Donkey Kong games. The original and junior are classics. My SNES came with DK Country and I can remember chasing balloons trying to get 100% and failing miserably.
A little different from your Favorites, these are the games you'd tell a friend to check out. Maybe they're underrated, maybe they're cult classics, but these are the ones you're always mentioning to people.
Sonic and Ecco and even BotW show the battle between industry and nature. Ori touches on that but leans more into the nature as a hidden world trope. Animal Crossing is an industrial free island building game where the main currency is turnips. It's completely agrarian.
Green Games
If planet Earth played video games, which would be its favorites? These are the games that celebrate our planet, by showing the beauty of nature, raising awareness for climate issue, encouraging sustainability, etc.
List the games that you missed out on during their first pass that you hope to get a shot at someday. Maybe an upgrade, remaster, re-release, retro - whatever. You didn't get to play it but you hope to someday.
Shout out to @froggy for the suggestion that we run top 10 ranking lists!
Rank up to 10 of your favorite platfformer games
Be sure to put them in order!
List and rank up to 10 of your favorite games that you could call a "collect-a-thon." These may be genre-bending and cross into other groups, but these are games where there is an overarching "gotta catch 'em all" vibe to these games. List those games that you need to collect in.
What games have you bought multiple times? Whether across system generations, upgraded versions, broken copies, digital and physical, multiple family members, whatever. List them! Inspired by @connerf
